Creative Problem Solving Training
Categories: Management and Supervision
What Will You Learn?
- By the end of this course, participants will:
- Have a greater understanding of problems & the creative problem solving process
- Learn what types of information to gather with some key questions
- Use four different problem definition tools
- Learn to write concrete problem statements
- Master idea generating tools like affinity diagrams, word chaining, the box method, the Looking through a different Lens & the blink method
- Learn to evaluate potential solutions against specific criteria like a cost/benefit analysis or group voting
- Learn to perform a final analysis and selecting a solution
- Gain insight into the roles that facts & intuition play in selecting a solution
- Understand the why's & how's of refining & re-refining a shortlist
- Learn how to identify the tasks & resources necessary to implement a solution
- Understand how to evaluate & adapt solutions to reality
- Learn to utilize follow-up to celebrate successes & identify improvements